Casino owner Milton McGregor, right, talks with his attorney Joe Espy as they depart the Federal Building in Montgomery, Ala., Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. McGregor and five others are on trial on federal bribery and conspiracy charges involving a vote buying scheme in the Alabama Senate. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA - VictoryLand owner Milton McGregor told another casino operator that it was urgent they get a bill through the Alabama Legislature in order to protect casinos from state efforts to shut them down.

"Right now we're out there butt naked," McGregor told Greenetrack CEO Nat Winn on a call recorded by federal wiretaps.

McGregor told Winn that getting electronic bingo on an upcoming referendum ballot, "will slow the court down from ----- us."

Testimony resumed this afternoon in the State House vote-buying case accusing McGregor and others of offering, or accepting, bribes in connection with a 2010 gambling bill aimed at sheltering electronic bingo casinos from state efforts to shut them down.

The proposal, if approved by lawmakers and voters, would have written into the Alabama Constitution that the electronic bingo machines were legal.

Prosecutors attempted to use phone and bank records to try and buttress the testimony of Country Crossing developer Ronnie Gilley that he worked closely with McGregor to offer bribes to key lawmakers to persuade them to vote for a gambling bill.

In earlier testimony today, FBI agent Nathan Langmack went over financial transactions to detail the $14 million that McGregor steered toward Gilley.

Gilley testified last week that McGregor eventually loaned him $14 million and in return was to receive a large cut of Country Crossing.

Phone records also indicated that Gilley and McGregor were in frequent contact.

Langmack testified there were 501 calls during the 2010 session between phones associated with McGregor and Gilley. Of those calls, 405 didn't go to voicemail.

That's an average of about four connected calls per day during the session, Langmack said.

Some of the calls coincided with times that Gilley testify he called McGregor to brief him on efforts to secure a senator's vote.

However, what was said on those calls is unknown since they were outside the time period of the wiretaps in the case.